Neck muscles

This is a table of skeletal muscles of the human anatomy. This is a table of skeletal muscles of the human anatomy. There are around 639 skeletal muscles within the typical human body. Almost every muscle constitutes one part of a pair of identical bilateral muscles, found on both sides, resulting in approximately 320 pairs of muscles, as presentedin this article. Nevertheless, the exact number is difficult to define because different sources group muscles differently, e.g. regarding what is defined as different parts of a single muscle or as several muscles.